{"id":70433,"date":"2021-02-08T17:00:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T11:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/one\/?p=70433"},"modified":"2025-07-01T12:51:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T07:21:44","slug":"patent-infringement-news-ibm-samsung-garmin-philips-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/patent-infringement-news-ibm-samsung-garmin-philips-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM #1 patent filer in 2020, Samsung at #2, Court rules in favor of Garmin in patent suit involving Philips and more"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this week\u2019s Patent News \u2013 Court rules in favor of Garmin in patent suit involving Philips; USITC steps into the Ericsson versus Samsung dispute; EPO and CIPO make their PPH fast-track programme permanent; EU Parliamentarians back India \u2013 South Africa proposal on patent waivers for COVID-Vaccine; IPO\u2019s Top 300 listing ranks International Business Machines (IBM) #1 and Samsung at #2; EPO publishes study on economic benefits of owning intellectual property rights \u2013 especially for small businesses;<\/span><\/p>\n

PATENT INFRINGEMENT NEWS<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Court rules in favor of Garmin in patent suit involving Philips<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

An Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) at the International Trade Commission (ITC) ruled in favor of Garmin, the famous wearable devices manufacturer after the company was accused of infringing some of Philips\u2019 patents on wearable devices. In the initial determination issued on the 4th<\/sup> of February 2021, the Judge found that Philips\u2019 asserted patents were invalid and did not cover Garmin\u2019s popular wearable devices.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

USITC steps into the Ericsson versus Samsung dispute<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The US International Trade Commission (USITC) has launched an investigation into the suit involving Ericsson and Samsung Electronics. The investigation has been launched after Ericsson filed a complaint with the ITC earlier in January this year accusing Samsung Electronics of illegally using its wireless communication patents for its mobile phones, tablet PCs and smart TVs. The complaint filed with the USITC reportedly seeks a limited exclusion order and cease and desist order against the South Korean electronics major. Ericsson is reportedly suing Samsung in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands over similar patent infringement issues.<\/span><\/p>\n

INTERNATIONAL PATENT NEWS UPDATES<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

EPO and CIPO make their PPH fast-track programme permanent<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The EPO and the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) have announced that the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) programme between the two offices has become permanent from the 6th<\/sup> of January 2021. The offices have agreed to extend the agreement, following the completion of a pilot programme, which started in January 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n

The PPH enables applicants filing a patent at either the EPO and CIPO to have their application processed faster at the other office.<\/span><\/p>\n

To read more about this, click here<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

EU Parliamentarians back India \u2013 South Africa proposal on patent waivers for COVID-Vaccine<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

14 members of the European Parliament have backed a joint proposal by India and South Africa for waiver on intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccine patents. The proposal jointly oved by India and South Africa requests a waiver to be granted to WTO members so that they do not have to implement, apply or enforce certain obligations related to COVID-19 products and technologies.<\/span><\/p>\n

The members in their letter have asked \u201cthe European Union to evaluate to support the adoption of a moratorium that allows the suspension of patents and the sharing of technology, data, know-how, allowing generics manufacturers to contribute to increasing global availability, including through support for India and South Africa’s proposal at the WTO<\/em>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

IPO\u2019s Top 300 listing ranks International Business Machines (IBM)\u00a0#1 and Samsung at #2<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) in its 38th annual listing of the Top 300 organizations that have been granted U.S. patents in 2020 have ranked International Business Machines (IBM)\u00a0as the top recipient of U.S. patents last year.\u00a0While IBM topped the list with 9,435 grants in 2020, Samsung came in at second with 8,539 U.S. patent grants last year.<\/span><\/p>\n

The top ten companies by number of grants in 2020 are:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. IBM<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Samsung Electronics<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. LG Corporation<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Canon<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Intel<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Raytheon technologies<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Huawei Technologies<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. Microsoft<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. Taiwan Semiconductor MFG. Co.; and<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. Sony Corporation<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    You may access the full listing here<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

    EPO publishes study on economic benefits of owning intellectual property rights \u2013 especially for small businesses<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

    The European Patent Office (EPO) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) have released a new study today which shows that companies which own at least one patent, registered design or trade mark generate on average 20% higher revenues per employee than companies which do not own any of those intellectual property rights (IPRs).<\/span><\/p>\n

    You may read more about this study here<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Click here<\/a><\/span> to access the study report.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Authored and compiled by Gaurav Mishra<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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    Disclaimer:<\/em><\/strong> Kindly note that the news bulletin has been put together from different sources, primary and secondary, and BananaIP\u2019s reporters may not have verified all the news published in the bulletin. You may write to contact@bananaip.com<\/a> for corrections and take down.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This post reports on major patent developments, including IBM and Samsung’s US patent rankings for 2020 and the ITC’s decision in favour of Garmin over Philips. It also covers international updates regarding patent prosecution, COVID-19 vaccine patent waivers, and a new EPO study on intellectual property benefits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[11192,906,4058,3215,5,16,841,8544],"class_list":["post-70433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intellectual-property","category-patents","tag-covid-vaccine-waivers","tag-epo","tag-garmin","tag-ibm-patents","tag-intellectual-property","tag-patent-infringement-2","tag-philips","tag-samsung-patents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141478,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70433\/revisions\/141478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}